Monoline composing-machine.



PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907.

J. MONAMARA. MONOLINE OOMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 14. 1905.

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MONOLINB COMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED J'ULYM. 1905.'

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No. 847,021; PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907. J. MQNAMAEA.

MONOLINE OOMPOSING MACHINE.

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PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907.

J. MONAMARA.

MONOLINE OOMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY141 1905.

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MONOLINE OOMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1%. 1905.

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MONOLINE GOMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLIGATION FILED JULYM. 1905.

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No. 847,021. PATENTED MAR. 12, 1907. J. MoNAMARA.

MONOLINB GDMPOSING MACHINE.

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J. MONA MARA. MONOLINE .GOMPOSING MACHINE.

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No. 847,021. PATENTED MAR. 12,. 1907.

J. MONAMARA.

MONOLINE OOMPOSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY14. 1905.

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ASSIGNMENTS, TO MERGENTHALER LIN OTYPE Fight,

JAMES MONAMARA, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, AssioNOR, BY MEsNF.

COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

, MONOLINE oo Posme-mAoimE.

To all wi o m, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMEs MCNAMARA, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

- siding at Montreal, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, have invented certaln new'and useful Improvements in Monomoldin which a cast thereof is to be taken,

(c) to improvements in and relating to the mold-carrier and trimming-knife wiper, and

. (d) to the distributing mechanism and means for operating the same.

The invention also relates to other improvements, which will be developed in the ollowing description of a machine embodying my invention. j

To the ends stated the invention consists in the new and improved means and arrangement of means and the mode of operation.

thereof hereinafter set forth and claimed. The several distinct improvements in means, arrangements, and mode of operation are such that one or more thereof may be used in v the heretofore-known types of monoiine-machines irrespective of the others, or all the features may be combined in a single machine.

That which I regard as new both as to the machine generally and as to the siveral novel elements and. combinations and sub- ..combinations of elements will be set forth, generically and.specifically, in the clauses of claims appended to the following description. In the accompanying drawings, illustrating a machine embodying my invention,

Figure lis a plan view. Fig. 2 is' a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken through the composing'bo x and showing a matrix-bar arrester and a matrix-bar keeper and adjacent parts. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view taken through the composing-box. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view taken through the composing the composing-box and I I Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 14. 1905. Serial No. 269,748.

line Composing-Machines, of which the fol- Patented March 12, 1907.

[ boX, illustrating the bridge on which the matrix-bars are supported in the composingboX and directed accurately onto the aliningbar Outside of the composing-box and showing also in section the movable front and division walls of the co1nposing-box. Fig. 5 is a similar seetion with the matrix-ejector and supporting-bridge in operative positions. Fig. 6 is an elevation of the composing-box looking into the delivery end. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a matrix-bar, showing the action of an arrester and a keeper. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the rear side wall of the composing-box. Fig. 9 is a similar view ofthe front side thereof. Fig. 10 is a detail perspective of the post constituting the rear wall of the composing-box and the ejectorguide. Fig. 11 isa perspective view, disconnected, of the ejector, the matrix-bar bridge,

and the bracket .in which the latter is niount view of a matrix-bar arrester. Fig. 14 is a perspective view ofythe yoke for returning" the matriX-bar-arrester slides to normal O sition. Fig. 15 is a side elevation showing the oscillator and connections therefrom for shifting the movable front and division walls of the composing-box. Fig. 16 is a top plan view of the same arts, illustrating alsothe initial position of the movable line-abutment.

Fig. 1-7 is a detail of the cam arrangement for shifting the movable front and division walls of the composing-box. Fig. 18 is a detail of the pivoted gravity magazine-gate-actuating pawls. Fig. 19 is a perspective view showing the movable line-abutment and the means for throwin the same out of the line-race. Fig. 20 is a etail perspective viewof the line moving and locking-up wings of the line-carriage. Fig. 21 is a top plan view illustrating the same parts. Fig. 22 isa perspective View showing the line-carriage. Fig. 23 isa view, partly in elevation and partly in crossseetion, illustrating the means formaintain? ing the line-moving wing-in operative position; the wing being shown as iwithdrawnc rob Fig. 13 is a similar from the line-race. 'Fig. 24 is a similar view showing the wing in operative positioltinthe line-race. Fig; 25 is an elevatloniof the line-- carriagelooking against the inner orrear face. Fig. 26 is a detail view showing the pins for causing the movable aiming-rail to 35 ing'the manner of mounting said plates for Fig. 41 is one end of the mold.

, per-arm therefrom.

enter and be withdrawn from the aiining-recesses of the matrix-bars. Fig. 27 is a part sectional and part plan view illustrating the line-race and p'artshaving to do with the action of the movable alining-rail. Fig. 28 is a perspective view of the movable aliningrail and the slide on which it is mounted, detached. Fig. 29 is a top plan view of these elements assembled. F ig. 30 is a detail elevation showing the connection of the fixed and movable alining-rails with a matrix-bar. Fig. 30 is an enlarged view of the parts shown in Fig. 30. Fig. 30* is a view showing the position of the assembly alining-rail with reference to the matrix-ejector. Fig. 31 is a View, partly in elevation and partly in sec- .tion, illustrating the metal-pot, the mold, the

anvil, the justii'ier, and depressor and means for operating the same. Fig. 32 is a detail fractional View showing the mold and the means by which it is connected to the moldshifting lever. Fig. 33 is a detail perspective view of one end of the shifting-lever. Fig. 34

is a pers ective view of the link connecting the mol with the shifting-lever and the knife wiper carried thereby. Fig. 35 is a detail of Fig. 36, Sheet 8, is a plan view showing the knife-wiper and the guard controlling the action thereof. Fig. 37 is a front elevation of the same parts. Fig. 38 is a side elevation of the distributer mechanism. Fig. 39 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view showing the arrangement of the lifting-plates. Fig. 40 is a cross sectional view on the line 40 40, Figs. 39 and 41, showmovementin the elevator-frame. a top plan view of the parts shown in the two preceding figures. Fig. 42 is a perspective view of one of said distributer lifter-plates. Fig; 43 is a perspective view of the top lifterplate. Fig. 44 is a perspective view of one'of the guide-plates in which the lifting-plates move. Fig: 45 is an elevation of the post forming an element of the lifting-plate projecting and retractin mechanism. Fig. 46 is a plan view of the fork by which the plate projecting and retracting gear is supported.

ig. 47 is a sectional'view of said plate projectin and retracting gear. Fig. 48 is a plan view s owing the line-carriage-shifting lever and the connections for actuating the strip- Fig. 49 is a side View of the same parts. Fig. 50, Sheet 7, is a detail showing elements of the mechanism for automatically stopping the machine at the com pletion of eac 1 cycle of operal ion.

designates-the finger-key mechai'iism, B the;

matrix-magazine, (J the train of driving mech anis-m, l) the metal-pot, and E the mold, all i of which are or may be substantially like the correspondingclements in previous monolinemachincs, shown, for example, in Letters Patent of Seudder, Nos. 506,198 and 605,141

from the matriX-arrester, as will be .hereinafter described. An adequate supply of such matrix-bars is stored in the magazine, matrix-bars having like characters being arranged inmagazine-compartnrents appropriated thereto, as heretofore, and from which magazine they are selectively released by mechanism actuated from a keyboard, generally similar to the manner illustrated in the prior patents referred to, but improved in detail, as will appear.

The magazine-gates 3, Figs. 1' and 15, having for their function to bring the matrixbars to discharge-point and discharge them into the composing-box 4, are arranged for operation in the manner shown in the Sendder patent, No. 605,141, and are acted upon by an ocsillator 5 of the general type shown in said Letters Patent, in the details of which oscillator, however, I have made several material improvements. 'lhc oscillator is shown in Fig. 15 of the drawing, wherein a fragment of one of the magazine-gates 3 is shown in cooperative relation thereto. 'lhis oscillator, as heretofore, .is provided with a scroll-cam 6, adapted to work again-it a coiitinuously-rotating roller 7, whereby the cam is rotated and throws the upper end of the oscillator forward to impart return stroke to the magezine-gates, as heretofore. in the previous monolin-machincs theoscillator was provided with a series of double-arm levers, to one arm of each of which a spring was attached to, normally maintain the gate-engaging arms ofsaid lovers in proper position to engage the gates whenthe oscillator is rocked forward. According to'my present invention I dispense with the double-arm levers and the springs, and therel'iy materially reduce the number of parts and simplify the construction and operation. 'lhis'l accomplish by pivotally mounting at the upper end of the oscillator a 'series of gravity-pawls h, one for each magazine-gate, the gate-ci'igagingendsof these pawls being weighted, so that theynor- In Said drawings ITtl'iiTPl'lhirlettPT inally by gravity assume a full-line position (shown in Fig. Us) and are then properly disposed lor engaging and returning the gates to the oscillator to rctnin the gates they maintain contact with these extremities, moving mal full-line position and pass into the cutther from the cam, as may be necessary. It

into position to arrest thefall of the matrixon their pivots to the position shown, for instance, in dotted lines in said figure of the drawing, Those pawls which are not in engagement with the gates maintain their noraway portions at the ends of the gates, as' heretofore.

I have also provided means for adjusting the oscillator with relation to the magazinegates, whereby the exactthrow necessary to return the gates fully to their forward position, in which position they support matrixbars ready to discharge the same into the composing-box, is obtained. This adjustment is chiefly desirable in the initial setting of the machine. I accomplish it in the example of this part of my invention shown in the drawings .by setting the shaft 9, which carries the continuously-rotating cam-operating roller 7, in an eccentric sleeve 10, arranged in the shaft-bearing 1] and providing means, such as a head 10 exposed for manipulation and having means, such as recesses 10*, whereby said ring and the eccentric connected therewith may be rotated with facility to set the cam-operating roller nearer to or farwill be apparent that when the can -operating roller is set close to the scroll-cam a greater throw will be imparted to the oscillator than when said cam-operating roller is further removed from the cam. By the means shown thethrow of the oscillator can be adjusted with nicety to give just the required return stroke to the gates.

O0mp0sing-b0x.--The matrix bars when released from the magazine are discharged downwardly into a composing-box 4, which box and the means for dealing with the matrix-b ars therein are shown in Figs. 3 to 14 of the drawings. The several matrix-bars descending from the magazine are arrested at predetermined elevations, according to the matrix character thereon of which a cast is to be made, whereby the selected characters appearing on a series of such bars will be disposed in a common line by means materially differing from those heretofore employed. Such means consists of a vertical series of horizontally-movable arresters 14, pivoted between distance-blocks 1 5, projecting from the face of apl'ate 1 6, constituting one side wall of the composing-box. The active ends 14 of these arresters work in guide-grooves 17, with which the plate 16 is provided, and are nor mally retracted within said grooves and out of the path of drop of the matrix-bars. The ar-- resters. are actuated to project their ends 14 barley means of a series of slides 18, which receive motion from the finger-keys, one slide being appropriated to each arrester. These slides, as best shown in Fig. 3, work against the tail ends of the arresters in a directionto l throw the active ends of the latter into op l erative position. Operatively coupled to or associated with the series of matrix-bar arresters is a series of yielding fingers 2, which constitute the matrix-bar keepers before referred to. These fingers are pivotally mounted at one end in channels 19 in aplate 16, constituting the other side wall of the composing-box. The keeper -fingers are normally housed within the channels out of the way of the falling matrix-bars by the corresponding arresters 14, which for this purpose are provided, as shown in Fig. 3, with lugs 1 4,that engage cams 2*,withjwhich the fingers 2 are provided. WVhen a given matrix-bar arrester l'et is projected into the composingbox to arrest a descending matrix, the corresponding keeper 2 will also be projected into the box in such manner-as to engage in the supplementalrecess 1 of the'matrirebar, as shown in Fig. 7, to prevent the bar from rebounding. To this end the lug 14 and cam 2 are so arranged that the former rides off the latter as the tail end of the arrester swings awaynnder the influence of the corresponding slide 18, whereupon the finger 2 will I be acted on by a suitable element, such as a spring 22 hearing thereagainst, and have its free end projected slightly into the drop-space 21. When afinger-key is operated, a slide 18 is actuated and a corresponding matrix-bar 'arrester and keeper assume their operative positions, the arrester being beneath the matrix-bar and the keeper in engagement with a supplemental recess 1 of said bar, as shown in Fig. 7. Necessarily, therefore, the active parts of these elements must be arranged at difierent elevations in the composing-box, and to provide for this the forward ends of the matrix-b ar arresters are dropped,

as best shown at 14 in Figs. 4 and 13.

Ithas been found desirable to provide some means from preventing the possible rebound of the matrix-bars above referred to, and heretofore this has been accomplished by a fixed spring-actuated pawl, over which the matrix-bars were compelled to pass, whereby a considerable retardation of the fall of matrix-bars was occasioned with a consequent diminutionin speed of operation of the machine. The present arrangement possesses material advantages over the prior one in that in all cases by reason of the fact that there is associated with each matrix-bar arrester a corresponding keeper-finger which is normally withdrawn from the matrix-bar drop-space, but'is projected thereinto simultaneously, or substantially so, with the matrix-bar arrester; and, irrespective of the oint at which the matrix-bar is arrested, liut one projection will have to pass the keeper-finger. When the matrix-bar arrester is withdrawn, the corresponding keeperfinger is also withdrawn by the action of the lug 1'4 on the cam 2 The rear wall of the matriX-barbox or composing-space 21 is, 

